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Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by bromuro »

ssijak wrote: post #23

I have just returned from one psytrance festival. I like to go there, not mainly for the music (which I like mostly), but for the atmosphere. Meeting all kind of different people and getting out from the usual "reality" and norms and rat race and jumping into crazines, relaxing the norms and trying new things. It is so refreshing, I always return home more happy and enthusiastic about life. And yes, people eat like t…

Oh i love psytrance family they changed my life and my attitude towards people. And psytrance is a beautiful music to listen to when programming!

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Post by MrScruff »

codeulike wrote: post #84
emptyfile wrote: post #41

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>Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented? So that when I look at a party in my area I can know if its a party where artists will be playing progressive psytrance or forest psytrance. Because they're different. Is this so hard to understand for you?

But why does the music at the party have to be so specific?

Because people like different music and the different genres sound different. If you don't think they sound different it's just because you haven't refined the part of your brain that can discern the differences for this type of music.

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Post by dylan604 »

Di.fm has a few channels related to goa/psytrance. The person that put this guide together, Daniel Lesden, has show that plays on one of the channels. From listening to some of his shows, it makes sense he would put something like this together.

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Post by [deleted] »

emptyfile wrote: post #56
jdpigeon wrote: post #18

I thought I was pretty hip to psytrance, but I guess not because I don't recognize any of these artists. How can there be a whole psytrance guide without mentioning 1200 micrograms, Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle?

Well yes, if you don't know any of the artists on there then you don't listen to psytrance obviously. This is a modern guide to current genres and almost all tracks on it are released after 2010 (yes even the Goa tracks are recent, its not dead). This is not a history of psytrance guide, if it was it would be huge. BTW Sphongle definitely isn't psytrance, and Infected Mushroom isn't well regarded in the underground.

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Post by H1Supreme »

hutzlibu wrote: post #65
weavie wrote: post #43

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Electronic Music is generally music that is made to dance to. A big part of what makes music good to dance to (especially when you are going to do it for hours at a time) is its predictability. If you know a beat is about to drop, and you can feel it coming you can position your body in preparation. When it does drop and you are able to move accordingly it provides a great sense of release and satisfaction. The resul…

I guess that is why I am not too much into electronic dance music(at least not those types you mentioned), as it is too predicitable and therefore booring to me. I like music to be wild and when I am in the flow, I feel a beat coming, even if it is out of "order". But why does it need a label to inform dancers of a genre change? You just feel the beat and move to it, no?

Most western music is 4/4 (or some derivative) time signature based, and quite predictable. Especially anything that is remotely popular. Mind sharing some of the acts/bands you like?

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Post by tannhaeuser »

dylan604 wrote: post #87
empath75 wrote: post #55

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Because those acts are 20 years old at this point, grandpa. (I know how you feel tho)

It's in the same vein as trying to talk to younger kids about movies that were released before they were born. So much content is coming at them that they just haven't watched (or heard music) much older stuff. It's not that they are against it, they just need to be introduced to it.

Hm, the 18-20 year olds I know know EVERYTHING from YouTube; they are really digital experts in past urban trends. I had a discussion (and subsequent alcohol excess where an old communist joined-in) on a customer event the other month with mid-20s customer supporters who described themselves as neo-punks (with lots of metal in the face) and were big in "dark" music and knew every single politically-incorrect dark metal band from the 90s. Also, it's not uncommon to enjoy a Jean Gabin or Film Noir movie, say, for the ones I know.

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Post by benj111 »

SuddsMcDuff wrote: post #10

This is great! I now know that "minimal psy" is the name of the genre I like to listen to whilst coding. I'd love to see something similar for the various sub-genres of drum & bass. 'Psybreaks' really reminds me of the soundtrack to the original Wipeout game, written by Cold Storage ( http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/ ).

Depending on where you are, the sound track may well have included some Orbital, Leftfield and Chemical Brothers also, it was stripped out for the North American release though.

There was also an album of the music released.

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by SuddsMcDuff »

benj111 wrote: post #97
SuddsMcDuff wrote: post #10

This is great! I now know that "minimal psy" is the name of the genre I like to listen to whilst coding. I'd love to see something similar for the various sub-genres of drum & bass. 'Psybreaks' really reminds me of the soundtrack to the original Wipeout game, written by Cold Storage ( http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/ ).

Depending on where you are, the sound track may well have included some Orbital, Leftfield and Chemical Brothers also, it was stripped out for the North American release though. There was also an album of the music released.

IIRC only the Playstation version had licensed music from those artists. Other versions (such as the Saturn version that I owned) had tracks written exclusively by Cold Storage.

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Post by codeulike »

MrScruff wrote: post #92
codeulike wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why does the music at the party have to be so specific?

Because people like different music and the different genres sound different. If you don't think they sound different it's just because you haven't refined the part of your brain that can discern the differences for this type of music.

But a good party should introduce people to new experiences, no?

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by emptyfile »

codeulike wrote: post #84
emptyfile wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented? So that when I look at a party in my area I can know if its a party where artists will be playing progressive psytrance or forest psytrance. Because they're different. Is this so hard to understand for you?

But why does the music at the party have to be so specific?

"have to be", "need"

Says who? You can describe your party as psytrance, or just trance if you have to.

I have an event in my facebook feed that just says "hospitalization" and a list of djs. I know what kind of music they will play because I know the organizers and djs, but it would still be helpful to write an bigger description.

You're all stuck on "micro-genres" but when I'm looking at a new dj at some event I expect a full paragraph describing their style with a soundcloud link with some dj sets.

Maybe the fundamental difference is that with a dj or even a producer you can't just download an album and see how they sound: the actual set will probably be unique, and in tune with the party. And yes I do want to know vaguely how it will sound.

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